Shouldn't Leisure Scholars Know Better? How the Work/Leisure Dichotomy Affects Policy and Culture for Academic Mothers

Autor/inn/en	Oakleaf, Linda; Burk, Brooke N.; Mausolf, Anna Pechenik
Titel	Shouldn't Leisure Scholars Know Better? How the Work/Leisure Dichotomy Affects Policy and Culture for Academic Mothers
Quelle	In: Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 34 (2019) 2, S.96-108 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1937-156X
DOI	10.1080/1937156X.2019.1622947
Schlagwörter	Leisure Education; Women Faculty; Mothers; Family Work Relationship; School Policy; School Culture; Departments; Teacher Attitudes; Child Rearing; Teaching Conditions; Expectation; Commercialization; Working Hours; Faculty Workload; Time Management; Leaves of Absence; Tenure; Universities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freizeitpädagogik; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Mother; Mutter; Schulpolitik; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Department; Abteilung; Lehrerverhalten; Kindererziehung; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Expectancy; Erwartung; Hours of work; Arbeitszeit; Zeitmanagement; Lehrerbeurlaubung; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; University; Universität
Abstract	This study was designed to understand the impact of university policy and departmental culture on academic mothers' employment, family, and leisure experiences. Telephone interviews were conducted with 17 mothers employed as academics in the field of leisure and closely aligned disciplines to provide insight into the effects of parenting within academia, current corporate university culture, and work-life balance. Qualitative analysis, guided by post-structural feminist theory, revealed three major themes in the findings, which together suggest flawed administrative applications of the work/leisure dichotomy are negatively impacting mothers in academia. Rather than prolific researchers and proponents of leisure serving as exemplars to the academic community of success in employment, family, and leisure, this study's findings suggest otherwise. As participants shared their struggles with unrealistic expectations, unsupportive colleagues, and conflicting workplace policies, this research instead supports a particularly critical review of leisure scholars and the employment policies of their academic departments. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01